I actually have a book that my library gave me for the "Youngest Reader Award". I was 4. The book, Maxwell Mouse.
When I was moving, my mother took it from me to ensure I didn't lose it.
I got stupid. The money was too good.
Jayne ,'Objects In Space'
We're Literary 2: To Read Makes Our Speaking English Good
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
Lilty Cash - Jul 12, 2004 7:12:50 am PDT #5058 of 10002
"You see? THAT's what they want. Love, and a bit with a dog."
billytea - Jul 12, 2004 7:15:09 am PDT #5059 of 10002
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
I have a car book (and a home book and a bag book), but I don't like reading them at lights.
Not enough challenge?
§ ita § - Jul 12, 2004 7:17:46 am PDT #5060 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Not enough challenge?
Heh. Increments are too small to make any progress.
Polter-Cow - Jul 12, 2004 7:21:45 am PDT #5061 of 10002
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
sarameg - Jul 12, 2004 7:27:47 am PDT #5062 of 10002
Ok, so you all are the people I have to honk at.
Steph L. - Jul 12, 2004 7:36:07 am PDT #5063 of 10002
I look more rad than Lutheranism
Sam Waterston portrayed Nick Carraway in the movie version of "The Great Gatsby."
The one with Redford? I saw that one. Huh.
Betsy HP - Jul 12, 2004 7:47:48 am PDT #5064 of 10002
If I only had a brain...
When you're thinking of a woman who is so beautiful and charming that men are drawn to her irresistably...
of course you cast Mia.
Vortex - Jul 12, 2004 7:49:30 am PDT #5065 of 10002
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
My mother always thought that I was antisocial because I like to read.
My brother taught me to read because he was tired of me bugging him to read to me. Because of that, I learned to read at a third grade level. I skipped the Dr. Seuss and Dick and Jane books. When I went to kindergarten, I told the teacher that I could read, but she didn't believe me. I tried to read from a book, but she thought that I had memorized it (as kids sometimes do) She finally believed me when I was reading the notes that she was sending home with the kids. The good kids knew what they had, and the bad kids knew what they had, but the middle of the road kids weren't sure. So, I read the notes to them. Teacher saw a crowd at recess, came to see what was going on. They called my mother, "Did you know that your child could READ?" My mother said "of course. She told you that."
I was perfectly content to sit around and read for hours at a time. My worst punishment was being made to sit in the middle of my room doing nothing. I wasn't allowed to sleep, I just had to sit there.
erikaj - Jul 12, 2004 8:50:31 am PDT #5066 of 10002
Always Anti-fascist!
I'm with Betsy on the Waterston love. I, uh, might have a new appreciation of that book after that.(Actually, I've been intending to re-read that one, and not to score points with "Jack McCoy".) Some of those court scenes make him look just...well, they just make me wonder what I ever saw in him. It's criminal.
Nutty - Jul 12, 2004 12:19:07 pm PDT #5067 of 10002
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
Hey. I just read a thing by Jeffrey Nunberg in yesterday's Times (about "terror" vs. "terrorism"), that referred to Albert Camus's The Plague as an extended metaphor for fascism.
Am I a dummy, or does that not make any sense? I'm thinking and thinking, and can't make the plot work as fascism. Maybe he is thinking of a different Camus book?